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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

IHE mHealth Hackathon

The Mobile access to Health Documents (MHD) profile offers access to the Document Sharing environment from platforms that prefer to use more simple interface technologies. The MHD profile takes the approach of REpresentational State Transfer (REST), a resource centric view; and leverages the technologies readily found on Mobile Devices (HTTP, Atom, JSON). This new interface to the Document Sharing environments is expected to extend the reach to devices and workflows. This new interface is not a replacement for XDS, XDR, or XCA; but rather provides a new programming interface to these Document Sharing infrastructures.

Mobile access to Health Documents (MHD) profile defines a simple HTTP interface to an XDS like environment. It defines transactions to a) submit a new document and metadata from the mobile device to a document receiver, b) get the metadata for an identified document, c) find document entries containing metadata based on query parameters, and d) retrieve a copy of a specific document. These transactions leverage the document content and format agnostic metadata concepts from XDS, but simplify them for access by constrained environments such as mobile devices. The MHD profile does not replace XDS. It can be used to allow mobile devices constrained access to an XDS health information exchange.

The Hackathon to be held at the IHE Connectathon on Wednesday afternoon and evening will provide the attendees insight into this profile and provide an opportunity to play around with it. The Hackathon will bring together implementers of the profile and those that might be interested in using it. The goal is twofold: First to provide a social environment to share experiences with implementations of the profile, and Second to help improve the profile. The profile use of languages that are implemented broadly in many devices and toolkits should offer a chance to develop rapid prototypes of applications. The goal of the rapid prototyping is to play around with the MHD profile interface. The environment will be an extension of the normal IHE Connectathon atmosphere to encourage creativity and problem solving.

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The information posted here are mine and not necessarily represent By Light Professional IT Services Inc. I am a Standards Architect specializing in Standards Architecture in Interoperability, Security, and Privacy for By Light Professional IT Services Inc. Primarily involved in the international standards development and the promulgation of those standards. Co-chair of the HL7 Security workgroup, a member of the FHIR Management Group, FHIR core team, and co-chair of IHE IT Infrastructure Planning Committee. Participate in ASTM, DICOM, HL7, IHE, ISO/TC-215, Kantara, W3C, IETF, OASIS-Open, and other. Was a core member of the Direct Project specification writing, authoring the security section, and supporting risk assessment. Active in many regional initiatives such as the S&I Framework, SMART, HEART, CommonWell, Carequality, Sequoia (NwHIN-Exchange), and WISHIN. Active in the Healthcare standardization since 1999, during which time authored various standards, profiles, and white papers.

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